On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 19:52, Mike Nordell wrote: > Kenneth J.Davis wrote: > > > Within the Head branch there is optionally support to download dictionary > > hash files. This support is either compiled in or not, but if it is, the > > library used to perform the download makes use of the WS2 lib. I am > > uncertain whether libcurl can be linked with winsock 1 (and still work) > > as the official source links with the winsock 2 library. > > I really, really, dubt that libcurl uses anything WS2 specific. Actually, > I'd be really surprised if they did (so far I've seen exactly _zero_ > applications/libraries that use anything WS2 specific - just plain socket > handling that the "old" winsock handles "just fine"). From your explaination > it seems to be an oversight on their behalf.
One of the main keypoint of using WS2 is to be able to use socket handle like file handle..... WinSock 1 is unable to do so. That really helps porting UNIX porgram to Windows. Hub
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